NBA New Year's Resolutions

I'll get into that. Also almost twenty twenty three, Nick, So do me a favor and drop that generic ass beat. So twenty twenty two is about to be history. And let's just say it's been a year to forget for a lot of people. Robert Sarver for one, Kyrie Irving another. List is probably pretty long for the people who would rather forget that twenty two existed. But we're not here

for all that. We're here to do something different, and that is to spread positivity and to spread joy, because that is what is my resolution personally for twenty twenty three.

And with the new year comes a whole bunch of new opportunities, new opportunities to be better, new opportunities to be nicer, and that is why we'll call this episode and end this episode with our annual NBA New Year's Resolutions, where we peer into the crystal ball and divvy out resolutions for players and teams that could, let's face it, use a little positivity right now. But before we get into that, let's go over some of the recent news

that's been popping around the league. We have to do it. We have to talk about this Dallas with Luca Doncic. Oh my god, I folks, I was at dinner. Did you think like it would have made any sense to cancel dinner plans to watch the Dallas Mavericks take on the New York Knicks. Did anybody think that they needed to stop everything in their life for that game? No? I didn't. So I didn't get to see Lucas game. It's a confession. I didn't see it live. I had to watch it back after the fact. I had to

see it on Twitter trending. My phone's blowing up, and you know what, I'm sad. I'm sad about it. I'm gonna live to regret it. I'm gonna know It's one of those where were you moments? I'm gonna know. Oh yeah, I was at AOC in Los Angeles, California, eating dinner with a friend when Luca dropped sixty plus twenty one

and ten. There's you got thoughts. You're trying to do some research and you're making that all happen, and then you're doing it on the fly, and all of a sudden you look up and someone else has already had the same take. There's probably nothing worse than that, truthfully, to be a take artist, a flamethrower, or an opinionist. You look up, you research, you prep, you're right, you're about to talk, and then all of a sudden, Nick fucking Right, First Things First comes through and drops one

right down on your head. So I'm not written Nick right hater. I actually like Nick Wright a lot, but damn I did not see Nick Wright coming in and pickpocketing me. Like his name is Luka doncic on Luca's take, so what he said was exactly what I wanted to say. Sixty twenty one to ten was a top five regular season performance in the entire history of the NBA, not just the last generation. Since the birth of the NBA, Luca's performance on that night when I was at a

random restaurant against the New York Knicks. Was a one of the greatest top five performances ever.

put Well Chamberlain in a category of himself. Someday I'll probably drop a video about this on what everyone gets wrong about his one hundred point game. But not today, folks, I got too much time. I got a reservation in about forty five minutes. So today is about Luca to understand why he did what he did was insane. What

are the greatest ras ular season game performances in NBA history? Well, number one, Denver's David Thompson put up seventy three, seven and two on the Pistons on April nineteenth, or on April ninth, nineteen seventy eight, excuse me, on the day of the NBA season. Thompson was once called by Bill

Walton the perfect basketball player. He was locked in a battle at that point for the scoring title with George Gervin, so he needed a huge game, and he went out and scored thirty two points in the first quarter, thirteen to fourteen, shooting six or six from the line. The only problem was that it was the final game ever in Detroit's Cobo Arena, and they wanted him to go out a winner, so they legit through the kitchen, sink at him and held him only twenty in the second

half the pit. This guy could add hundred points. The Pistons even managed to pull out a win, and Thompson fell just short of the scoring title despite shooting seventy four percent from the floor. Why because George Gervin went off for sixty three on the same day. Insane, unreal, just really something for the masses there. On March twenty eight, nineteen ninety, Michael Jordan mj Airness dropped sixty nine nice

eighteen and six on the Cavaliers. The game's probably the closest one to Lucas performance because MJ put up eighteen rebounds to go with four steals and a block. That's ridiculous. More incredible, he went twenty three for twenty seven from the field, and in MJ style, the Bulls ended up really outlasting a good Cavs teams one hundred and seventeen, one hundred and thirteen. Probably the greatest regular season performance of all time, that's what people say. At least I

was like four. So do did I do? I remember it off the top? No? I don't. David Robinson seventy one, fourteen and five on the last day of the nineteen ninety four season. He won the scoring title over Shack. In that game, he faced double and triple teams all night and he still managed to shoot sixty three percent from the field. He scored the first eighteen Spurs points

of the game, and uh oh yeah. He ended up winning the scoring title with twenty nine point six points per game because Shaq only had thirty two in that game, So that was a sick performance. Ridiculous seventy one points like seventy one points the next day. Very important day. Probably one of my favorite. I think this is my personal favorite. January twenty second, two thousand and six. Kobe drops eighty one. Uugh, let me say it again. Kobe drops eighty one, six and two in forty two minutes

of action. What an absurd stat line. He was twenty eight for forty six in the field, perfect Kobe non efficient type performance, including going seven for thirteen from three. The craziest thing about this game, though, the Lakers were trailing by eighteen in the third quarter, and from that point on, Kobe put up fifty one points and the Lakers absolutely curb stomped the Raptors, beating them by almost twenty.

He had fifty five points in the second half. That is Kobe, you think you have me and you do not have me. Bonkers. So Luca's crazy stat line twenty one freaking rebounds, I don't know what that is about. And he probably could have twenty assists as well his as we know, he doesn't have a lot of help out there. Spencer did when he hit a couple of huge shots down the stretch. But the fact that Luca put up this number sixty twenty one to ten and

they came back, it wasn't just the stat line. Is that they came back and won when they were down nine points with what a minute left to go, thirty seconds left to go, thirty five seconds left, ended up setting the game to overtime. And it's not just that he scored sixty. He had fifty last week. But he scored sixty and had ten assists, and he probably could have had twenty one. Well, like all the Maps, couldn't hit an open shot to save their life. He was

so good in every aspects of the game. He had two steals, he had one block. It was just disgusting. And then the best part about Luca because I love him and he's just so fat and just such a regular guy. You look at him and he's just the most unassuming, insane basketball player. Like all those other players. You look at them, all those other top five performances in the NBA. You look at those guys and you go, yeah, that's an athlete. Yeah that guy could put that guy

could put seventy one on my head. Not Luca. Look, you look at Luca and you say, uh, is this guy my task rabbit? Is he about to help me move? That's Luca, Like, Luca looks like he does need a recovery beer, because that's what he said, I need a recovery beer. And fortunately for all of us, Lasco Brewery immediately jumped on the Luca train started launching their recovery beer addition. In an IG post, they said, for every tired Luca who needs a beer for regeneration, we have

brewed recovery beer. How do they do that so fast? I also need a recovery beer. From watching the highlights, I can't imagine what Luca felt in that game. So those are my top five regular season games of all kind of time. Who am I missing? I feel like I'm missing someone, but let me know who. It's almost a new year, so I'm gonna turn over a new leaf. I've got some resolutions for a number of players and teams that I need to give out. So let's start

in New Orleans where the Pelicans. They have a brief downturn. Brandon Ingram's been out, we know that, and I don't know when he's coming back, but that's an issue, but they're back to their winning ways. Zion the other night had forty three and people are calling him exactly what he is, which is a football player that plays basketball on a very talented team. But I haven't New Year's resolution concerning Zion, and I'm not. I'm you guys gotta help me stay, stay steadfast to this because I don't

know it's gonna be easy. You know, New Year's resolutions are never really gonna be easy. They they take work, they take dedication, and this one's gonna take a lot of dedication and an accountability partner, and that is that is. I am not gonna talk about Zion's way anymore. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make any more Zion fat jokes. I'm not gonna say, oh, you know, Zion, where's your where's your beignet? Oh Zion, Zion's been eating a little

extra kreole. I'm not gonna be like ooh Zion, Zion had some steak last night, That's why he was a little I'm not gonna do any of that. Do I regret saying he was out of shape last year? No? I do not. I am not going to regret that. I am not going to apologize for that. Do I regret saying that before anyone else that he was gonna miss the entire season last year? No? No, I do not regret that. We were right on both accounts. But

that doesn't mean it's nice. So we're gonna try to be nice to Zion because listen, do I regret making light of his weight issues when he was going through trials and tribulations with his health, Well, I gotta do, actually, especially when he said that those kind of comments and I never made them to be mean, but he said that they really hurt him, not my jokes in particular. I'm sure he didn't even listen to him, but you know the rhetoric of the media just saying that he's fat.

He said, hey, that's he goes hey, that's mean, and I was like, damn, damn. I should probably stop talking about Zion. Do I think he's gonna still have conditioning issues? Probably, Like he's he's a big boy. This is like a big boy like Shack. Shack has had his own trials and tribulations. But I'm not going to say anything about Zion being out of shape because he eats too much. I'm not gonna say anything about Zion getting injured or twisting his knee because he's eating too much creole or

I'm not going to anymore. And if he stays on the court and he can't stay on the court, we'll cross that bridge when we get there. So down in Orlando, let's move on. I've also been pretty harsh on the Magic franchise, mostly because people don't really care about them and they have no fans and they're losing franchise, and their ownership group isn't great and they really don't draft the right players, and their pr team is maybe the worst I've ever seen in all of sports. And that's

really saying something. But my newly Ears resolution for them is to just not say anything mean about them or doubt anything about Paolo ban Carol. I'm not doubting anything about him again. The guy is special. He's gonna win Rookie of the Year. I saw him play live in college. I've seen him play live in the pros. I've seen him play live in the Summer League. And I'm damn near ready to say that Palo could take the reins from Lebron James for the first time. I'm ready to

say if it's anyone, it will be him. He pad turns his game after Lebron. That's what he said. The person that I pattered my game off the most is Lebron James. And you can see it in his passing. You can see it in terms of how bald dominant he can be, how he can do many things, and he's very dynamic on the basketball court. But good lord, Powo is balling out just absolutely insane. Only one player in NBA history has had more twenty point games before

Christmas their rookieyear. That's and his likeness is on half of the shoes in the league. Michael Jordan and Powell, Polo. That's it, Michael Jordan and Powlo. Powlo probably is gonna make the All Star Game. He might make All NBA thirteam. He probably won't, but he is. He is just a treasure. And he's turned a team that didn't make any damn sense, a team with misfit spacing, a team with too many players of the same position, and he's helped unlock Bull Bull.

He's unleashed Franz Wagner. I mean, I've spent so much time talking about the magic because of Powlo. He has transformed this franchise like Lebron James transformed the Cavaliers. Ban Carro is actually better than advertised. He should have probably gone first when he was seventeen, Like Palo ban Carro could have gone first in twenty seventeen, and I think it would have been the right call. Like this is like when he was when he was fifteen years old,

eating Captain crunch for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He probably could have been a proven So I'm not questioning Palo in twenty twenty three at all or beyond, because there's frankly nothing that he can do to surprise me. Anymore. Does Palo need work? Absolutely, does he need to be a better ball handler? He's six fucking ten, Okay, Like, yes, does he need to learn that part of the game. Does that need to increase in his dynamic ability? Sure? But he's six ten, two sixty and just an absolute

wrecking ball. Lots of shit happening in Atlanta. That that leads me to my next resolution. My new year's resolution for the Hawks is just really to put my thinking cap on and my inspector krik had on and find out what the fuck is actually happening down there. Because if you think the beef between Trey and coach Nate is bad, if you think that was weird, like a

little spooky, things just disintegrated. Because now the Hawks have taken another incredibly bizarre step of firing their fucking GM before Christmas, the same GM that almost won GM of the Year like less than eighteen months ago. So yeah, I am going to sink my teeth thin, make some calls and find out for y'all what is happening. The Hawks are on the verge of becoming a dumpster fire. To be honest, I didn't see it coming when they went went to the Eastern Conference Finals, did you guys?

I don't know if anyone saw it coming. I don't think I'm alone, but it is toxic down there. Has a GM ever been fired before Christmas when it didn't involve like some sort of allegation he didn't do anything wrong. He's just been in that. Like, I can't overestimate how rare and unusual move this is. Teams, especially ones just eighteen months from an Eastern Conference Finals team does not

do that. Schlank himself, who's still on staff, but not the GM, which is also weird as well, Like they just are like, well, we have to pay you no matter what, so fucking get our coffee, bitch. That's basically what they're doing to travish Lank right now. They're like, we can't if we fire you, we have to pay you and you're unemployed, so we're just gonna keep you on staff. We're gonna make you do some bad shit, put the Yellowstone brand on you so you can never

fucking leave and tell our secrets anyway. This is what Travis Schlank said himself and his exit presser. He said throughout the season, Hawk's owner Tony and I had and multiple conversations about how I have been feeling in the new year, Tommy has suggested I take a step back prioritize my family. WHOA so he's officially an advisor, but listen, yeah, one of the hottest in the league, a guy who signed in a lucrative extension, is now essentially out of

a job. And the reason is the dysfunction in the Atlanta Hawks organization. All the things that they did wrong, all of the contracts that they extended, extending John Collins, going out and giving more money to Clint Capella, making that de Jonte Murray trade. The lists over and over and over of what he has done has been very suspect. And of course number one on that list is Trey Young.

And whatever is going on with Treyng and the people that Travishlank hired to interact with Treyjung is not good. It either is Trey Young or it's everyone that Travish Flank hired. And you know what, now we're gonna find out who it really was. His short career, he's already killed one coach, he's threatened to kill another. He's buried a GM that we thought might be executive of the year, and now the franchise might be shook as well. So maybe with a new GM, Treyjung will find someone that

makes him happy. So yeah, my resolution is to look into the Atlanta Hawks, keep my eye open, keep both eyes open, and find out what's happening with this dumpster fire and report back. I really, really seriously pondered whether my next New Year's resolution should be to not talk about the Lakers again until they break five hundred. But then that would mean no Laker talk on the heat check,

wouldn't it. So I realized that would maybe make no sense for us, and then it would maybe mean no Laker talk until they actually have their first round pick of their own and maybe become a team that can actually compete, and that's probably twenty twenty nine. So I'm not gonna make a commitment to do to not talk about the Lakers until you know, I'm damn near forty years old. I can't do that. I'm more than forty

years old. Instead, my New Year's resolution is just simply to enjoy the Lake Show, because there's nothing more pornographic than to know that the Lakers have let go of the rope. Truthfully, like to know that they have given up, and that new reports rob Polinka coming out and saying, hey, you know, we might just stand pat the new reports or the Lakers are considering doing absolutely nothing again at the trade deadline. That is two years in a row. If you're keeping a track that is just that is

just enough for me to subside on for decades. According to The La Times Dan Wolkie, the Lakers are seriously considering to just say fuck it and ride out the season with the status quo. That means no trades, no major deals, no desperate plays at the deadline for a player who's going to further burden this team, and no trading of their own two first rounders left in this decade. I know your first question is the same as mine. How do you think Bron's gonna feel about this? Well?

Not great as it turns out. This is what Broun said in the Pressure the other day. I'm a winner. I want to win, and I want to win and give myself a chance to win and still compete for chips. That has always been my passion, That has always been my goal since I entered the league as an eighteen year old out of Akron, Ohio. I know the steps it takes to get there, do you, though, Braun? Do you?

But once you get there and know how to get there, playing basketball at this level, just to be playing basketball is not in my DNA. Pause. If you don't want to play basketball anymore, just to play basketball anymore, then you have two options. One leave the LA Lakers, two retire because it's not happening anymore there. So then he says, this is not my DNA, So we'll see what happens and see how fresh my mind stays over the next couple of years. That seems like a guy who is

trying to push on the leverage button. Yeah, I could possibly just take my ball and go home. I could just andrew luck this bitch because he doesn't want to lose. That's why he deleted a tweet from a year ago recently about how he'll never miss the playoffs again in his career. He knows that was bullshit, bullshit. He knows what the future in LA looks like. And folks, it's not great. It's not being five hundred, it's not making the playing team, and it's certainly not making the fucking

playoffs and contending for a championship. So I'm not gonna go out of my way to stoke the fire, but I'm not gonna poke the Laker bear anymore than I have to. But I'm just gonna get my marshmallows, am i Hershey Bars extra dark, and get ready to make s'mores over the dumpster fire that is the La Lakers. For a long, long, long time. Since I've spent so much of the last three years talking about the Brooklyn Nets, it only seems fitting that my New Year's resolution be

about Ben Simmons and being nicer to him. Really, it's sort of simple. The things that Ben Simmons did that drove me insane are mostly in the past. He's a product of other people trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. And you know what, that's not what the Nets are doing right now. They're using Ben

Simmons like the type of tool he is. Since he got back onto the court, Ben Simmons has been, let's be honest, like very good, very good, like great, kind of great, and he's a huge reason that the Nets are the hottest team in the NBA right now, besides Jacques Bond. How good is Ben Simmons been of late? He has the Nets best net rating on the team plus twenty one point seven. He has the best defensive rating on the team one oh six point six. And

get this, folks, Ben Simmons, Ben fucking Simmons. This is insane. I had to check and recheck. Has the highest offensive team, highest offensive rating of any starter on the Nets one twenty seven point nine, highest total rating, highest defensive rating, highest offensive rating. Do you remember that this team has Kyrie Irving and Kevin fucking de Rant. The question is houseway. How lee it to Kyrie to explain it? He said,

I think he could probably answer that better. But it's me as a teammate just seeing him smile, have fun, be competitive, that's him being himself. So anytime he could just be himself and trust that we have his back, I feel like that's the best version of himself. And you know what, Thanks, Thanks Ben. I'm going to make this resolution. I'm happy for you. I'm happy for Ben and when Ben is playing like this and more importantly, is healthy, because that's important as well. The next team

could be very dangerous. They could be very very hard to be moving forward, and I've been okie doked by them before, but I think this is a real team. I think this is a team that could actually compete for a chip. I think everybody in the East is very vulnerable, even in the Boston Celtics. We saw them

lose the Orlando Magic twice. And you know what. My New Year's resolution, my biggest one, really is to be happy for Ben Simmons and to be nice to Ben Simmons, and to find reasons to praise Ben Simmons, because why, this is a man who's broken and he needs every piece of help that he can get, and this is a version of Ben we can get behind. My final New Year's resolution is aimed at two players, Rudy Gobert and Grayson Allen, two least like players in the NBA.

Most likely my resolution, you're gonna say, Trista, are you gonna be nice to them? You're gonna be is your resolutions to just say nice things about them, find things that they do well, Fuck no, it's to point out every time these fuckers do something stupid, because I feel they get the benefit of the doubt way more than they do even though no one likes them. This year, I resolved to absolutely positively not change my mind on Rudy Gobert. Everyone tries to tell me he's a defensive

player of the Year. Everyone tries to tell me he's actually a nice guy. He just made a mistake during COVID times. Everyone tries to tell me, you know what, he's just not being used well. Everyone tries to tell me that Donovan Mitchell is a problem. But you know what, no, no, no, no, no, no, it is Rudy Gobert. Rudy Gobert fucking sucks. Everything about him sucks. His face sucks, his hair sucks, his body makeup sucks. His defensive although he plays okay to perimeter defense,

He's just not that guy. He is not worth the money, He is not worth the trade value. He is just not really worth the breath that's coming out of my lungs right now. But you know what, I'm doing it for, y'all. Fuck Rudy Gobert. Part of that is the reason that he tries to spend so much time trying to change our mind that he's not a jerk. He is. There's a full blown documentary about him not being a jerk, And you know what, when you do that, that shows

you are said jerk. Recently, Donovan Mitchell as we know, gave his views on Rudy, and let's just say, what this like. He's doing everything he can to keep the peace, but he doesn't like Rudy Gobert either. No one does. One of the reasons. I like Donovan Mitchell very very very very nice but very honest guy. And then, of course after he said like, yeah, it was all about COVID, that's when I really started to not like him. Gobert's PR team went into crisis mode again, got him a

feature article on the New York Times. What got Did Donovan Mitchell get a feature article on the New York Times? No CAA CIA is Donovan Mitchell's agency. He couldn't get a feature article in the New York Times, even though he's having an MVP caliber year. But Rudy Gobert, toiling away in Minnesota with one of the worst trades in NBA history, just doing absolutely god nothing, gets a feature article in the New York fucking Times. I digress. It

was the fluffiest of fluff pieces. Here's what Rudy says. A lot of people celebrate my failures. A lot of people celebrate my failures. It's kind of a mark of respect. For me just to have people that wait until I do something wrong or until my teams start losing, then they become really, really loud, and when my teams do well, it's quiet. Again. Pause hold up, stop the press right now. People shit on you all the time. Even when you win,

they're shitting on you. No one likes you when you're winning, because you can't win when the lights are bright. Rudy, that's why we don't like you. Continue, he says. He embraces that because it's part of the external noise that comes with all the success that we've had in Utah

over the last few years in his career. Once I start to have success, when I started winning Defensive Player of the Year All NBA, begin an All Star, brag, brag brag, When my team when we started winning like fifty and stuff, the people on social media are always

the loudest. Pause. Pause again, you're saying all I hate stems for your success and not because I don't know you shut the league down, your stance on COVID, the fact that you liked of Elon must tweet about your pronouns being prosecute, fauci, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, back to the point we finally get to the entire point of the fluff piece, which was to address how Donovan Mitchell told the truth about Rudy, and Rudy says this, I think it was a tough situation for me in Utah, just

like it was a tough situation for him. Things happen, and sometimes people can do things to you that can hurt you, a lot of times it's out of fear, you know, So you just have to grow through that and see past that. Rudy was then asked, yeah, you mentioned people do things that will hurt you, do you mean Donovan Mitchell and he goes, I mean generally that's life, right, right, right, right, Yeah, just psychoanalys just the general society when we're talking about

Donovan Mitchell shitting on you in the most classy way. Okay, victim, Rudy, Rudy's the victim. Everyone hates Rudy for no reason. We're just all being gas let that Rudy's just this an awesome guy and that everyone doesn't like him for no fucking reason. Okay, Okay, So my resolution is to never take the boot off of his neck, because you know what, he's gonna do everything that he can to weasel out of all the bad things that he does and try

to spin it into something good for Rudy. Which brings me to Grayson Allen, maybe the other person in the league that I like less than Rudy Gobert. He's probably in the running for top two least like player in the NBA by fans, by players, all of it. So in a game this week against the Bulls, Grayson Allen did Grace and Allen things when he always does it

against the Bulls. He's a fucking relentless menace against the Bulls because remember he almost hurt Alex Crusoe last year and Alex Cruso had to make a whole thing out of it, and then he didn't shake Alex ccruzo's hand, and then he didn't apologize. You guys remember this. But he's doing something against and against the Bulls. So Grayceon Allen did Grayson Allen things and cheap shot at de mar de rozen in they in the head. Are you shocked?

I am just absolutely shocked. I am beside myself. You could just flip me over with a feather right now. This is what he said. This is what DeRozan said, I felt a hit. I felt like it went across the middle. I felt like I went across the middle in a football game and tried to catch a slot route. So he cheap shots him in the back of the head, straight from Grayson's playbook, and DeRozan, of course he was pissed. So after the game he said, yeah, it's his track record.

If it was Boban, I probably wouldn't have done. Nothing. Can't tell you how much I love tomar de Rozan simultaneously just slamming Grayson Allen and praising Boban. I love Bobon. We all do. He's just like an absolute treasure. Zach Levine. By the way, Tim McMahon is now attaching to a possible Mavericks trade, so you file that away in your tickler file. Well, Zach attacked the entire He watched the entire charade. He said this, Ah, yeah, we know Grayson

Allen this track record. Pat got the foul, but Tamar got elbowed in the back of a head. Tamarrow responded the right way. The next twenty minutes, you saw what happened. Yep, Bulls came back. They won the game in part because they were pissed about Grayson. Allen. Grayson out there cost in bucks wins they very much need right now because the bucks don't look very good. Right. What did Grayson have to say? Probably nothing if you included the If

your answer included the word bullshit. Yeah, just not taking any accountability, because that's Grace and Allen. Yep, here it is. You go, Grayson, tell us what you said. It was exactly what the video showed. I went to set a screen, got bumped into Jamorrow, and when you get bumped into somebody, you put your arm out to stop yourself. I didn't try to run him over. I mean, he was upset he got blindsided by his screen. Dude, you're using the

word blindside to describe a basketball play. You are at fault when you get when you hit someone in their blind spot. That is a one cheap shot by you. And then he says this. They asked him, Hey, did you apologize to like like you were supposed to do Alex Cruse last year, And he was like, why I was trying to He's talking to somebody else at the time. So yeah, I mean, I just just never spoke of them. I just don't know what happened. It has never spoke of them at the play. So the answer is no, no,

you did not speak to him. There's another Grace and Allen making an excuse about why you didn't take accountability, why he didn't apologize, Why isn't his fault. It's just are they not? Is Rudy Gobert and Grace and Allen just not the same person? They are the worst? They are the worst. What's that song like? This is why you suck? This is why you suck? Like this is one of those situations where Grace and Allen just needs

to go trade him. Even the bulls Collar commentary was like, Yeah, nobody deserves a one to two punch more than Grace and Allen. Just give him a two piece chicken nugget meal and get this chink thing out over with. And that's my final resolution for this New year's edition of He Checked. My final resolution is to always cover these random kind of stories because I think this is what the NBA needs. I think this is what makes the NBA so fun, so interesting to There's always a great play,

of course, there's always Lucas sixty. There's always drama like Travis Slank getting deep six by the Atlanta Hawks. And there's always gonna be guys that we all hate. We want to find ways to just affirm our amount that we hate them, so love and love and happiness and hate kind of New Year's Resolution episode. And there's always gonna be cheap shot artists like Grayson Allen, And when they do Grayceon and Allen things, I'll be here to call them out. That is all the time that we

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